{"id":17925,"date":"2020-10-13T13:11:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T17:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/?p=17925"},"modified":"2020-10-13T13:11:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T17:11:48","slug":"new-faculty-policy-requires-fsu-to-announce-news-internally-following-covid-19-outbreaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/new-faculty-policy-requires-fsu-to-announce-news-internally-following-covid-19-outbreaks\/","title":{"rendered":"New Faculty Policy Requires FSU to Announce News Internally Following COVID-19 Outbreaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Faculty Senate of Frostburg State University will introduce a resolution during their monthly meeting tomorrow, Oct. 7 about communication related to campus news. The policy, which cites University System of Maryland policies governing collaboration between the administration and campus stakeholders, will require President Ronald H. Nowaczyk and his counterparts to communicate news regarding institutional decisions to employees and students prior to releasing the details to external news media.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The resolution comes on the heels of the news of the FSU Men\u2019s Lacrosse team\u2019s quarantine<\/a> due to a player testing positive for COVID-19. The report of the quarantine, sent to external media outlets like the <\/span>Cumberland Times-News, <\/span><\/i>caught campus community members off guard because no official announcement had been made internally. In an email to <\/span>TBL <\/span><\/i>on Sept. 20.<\/span>, <\/span><\/i>Liz Medcalf, Director of Communications for FSU, said this was intentional. \u201cThis was such a large group of people being sent to quarantine that we determined, to prevent incorrect rumors from circulating, that it was important that correct information be available.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Since Medcalf\u2019s statement, FSU has had another sports team outbreak. On Oct. 1, members of the baseball team were placed in quarantine<\/a> following five players testing positive for the coronavirus. In that case, faculty, staff, and students learned of the news through a campus-wide internal email from the administration prior to the release of information to local news outlets. This new policy from the Faculty Senate will ensure that this pattern is followed in the future.
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The full language of the resolution can be read below.
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